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Zona de subducción de Oregon: ventilación, fauna y carbonatos
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 7, 1986
Resumen
Los ecosistemas marinos en la zona de subducción de Oregón revelan ventilación de fluidos. Estos ecosistemas utilizan metano, lo que indica la migración de fluidos antiguos y modernos en complejos de acreción.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Geología marina Geología marina.
- La geoquímica es la geoquímica.
- Ecología Ecología Ecología.
Sus antecedentes:
- Los complejos acrecionarios se forman por el raspado de sedimentos oceánicos en placas tectónicas predominantes.
- La ventilación de fluidos es un fenómeno común en las zonas de subducción, que influye en los procesos geológicos y biológicos.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para investigar el marco estructural y estratigráfico del complejo de acreción de la zona de subducción de Oregón.
- Identificar y caracterizar los sitios de ventilación de fluidos y las comunidades biológicas asociadas.
Principales métodos:
- Tránsectos sumergibles utilizando el sumergible Alvin para examinar afloramientos rocosos.
- Análisis de la química de fluidos, precipitados minerales carbonatados y comunidades biológicas.
- Análisis de isótopos estables (enriquecimiento de carbono-12) para rastrear fuentes de metano.
Principales resultados:
- Se identificaron sitios de ventilación de fluidos fríos en una anticlina de curva de falla a 2036 metros de profundidad de agua.
- Las comunidades observadas de almejas y gusanos de tubo asociados con los sitios de ventilación.
- Se detectó enriquecimiento de metano en la columna de agua y enriquecimiento de carbono-12 en carbonatos y tejidos animales.
- Evidencia de migración de fluidos desde fuentes poco profundas y profundas a lo largo de estratos o fallas permeables.
Conclusiones:
- Las comunidades microbianas que consumen metano apoyan los ecosistemas animales y carbonatados observados.
- Los carbonatos autígenos están cimentados por el metano oxidado, lo que indica su papel como fuente de carbono.
- Los hallazgos proporcionan criterios para identificar sitios similares de ventilación de metano en depósitos acrecionarios antiguos y modernos en todo el mundo.
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